In insult-laden statement, North Korea refers to Abe as an 'idiot and villain'
North Korea on Thursday unleashed an insult-laden diatribe against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, calling him an "idiot and villain" who should not even dream of setting foot in Pyongyang, and hinted at the possibility of missiles again flying over Japan after Abe criticized a ...
At ASEAN-related summit, Abe condemns North Korea's missile launches
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday strongly condemned North Korea's missile launches at an ASEAN-related meeting, saying they are in clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. At the summit on the outskirts of Bangkok, Abe also urged the leaders of countries in ASEAN Plus ...
North Korea's Kim eyeing December summit with Trump, Seoul spy agency says
A new round of U.S.-North Korea working-level talks on denuclearization was likely to be held this month or early next month, the South's Yonhap news agency reported Monday, quoting Seoul's spy agency, with leader Kim Jong Un eyeing a December summit with U.S. President ...
North Korea fires two 'short-range' missiles into Sea of Japan amid stalled nuke talks with U.S.
The launches were unusual in that the North typically conducts them under cover of darkness.
North Korea raps Japan's release of video showing fishing boat collision
North Korea has criticized Japan for releasing video footage showing the collision between a North Korean fishing boat and a Japanese patrol ship earlier this month. "The fishing vessel incident obviously is nothing but a deliberate barbarity as it is a vivid expression of the ...
North Korea demands Japan pay compensation over sinking of fishing boat
North Korea has “strongly demanded” Japan pay compensation for a fishing boat that sank after it collided with a Fisheries Agency patrol boat in the Sea of Japan.
Japan may release video of North Korean boat's collision with Fisheries Agency vessel
Suspecting illegal fishing, the patrol ship Okuni was badgering the ship with loudspeakers and water cannons before the accident in Japan’s EEZ.
With U.S. help, Japan analyzing threat level from North Korean submarine-launched missiles
In cooperation with the U.S. military, the Defense Ministry in Tokyo is analyzing how much of a threat North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missiles may pose. North Korea claims to have succeeded in test-firing a new-type of SLBM, the Pukguksong-3, apparently in reference to a projectile ...
Physicians' group sends top official to North Korea as to considers offering medical aid
A senior official from Japan's biggest physicians lobby arrived in North Korea from Beijing on Saturday with an eye to providing future medical aid to the reclusive country believed to be facing serious health care challenges. Mitsuaki Maseki, chairman of the Japan Medical Association's house ...
U.S. President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart held a summit in New York on Monday to discuss plans to restart U.S.-North Korea talks, as the allies hold discussions in Seoul on sharing the cost of American soldiers stationed in South Korea. Though negotiations ...
Japanese radar stations and MSDF crews failed to track recent North Korean missiles launches
The missiles, including some capable of reaching Japan, apparently escaped detection due to their low altitudes and irregular trajectories.
North Korea envoy tells delegates from Tokyo that ties with Japan going 'from bad to worse'
North Korea's ambassador for negotiations to normalize relations with Japan told a visiting Japanese delegation on Wednesday that ties between the two countries have been going "from bad to worse rather than becoming normal," during a meeting in Pyongyang. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has recently ...
